Way back in 1988, as described in a New Republic article, satirist Joe Queenan submitted a blatantly falsified biography to the publishers at Who’s Who in order to prove that the publisher would print just about anything without checking any facts. Decades later, a prankster named Jordan Minor did basically the same thing, except instead of lying about his own accomplishments, he was curating a completely bogus history for the half-forgotten animated series Street Sharks. Minor writes about his “ongoing social experiment” in an eye-opening piece for Geek. Running three seasons in the mid-1990s, Street Sharks was DIC Entertainment’s low-rent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles rip-off. Minor found that he could submit completely invented plot synopses and voice credits for the series to sites like TV Tome because nobody was paying attention. No one in a position of authority cared enough about this show to filter out the falsehoods. This is why legitimate publications still employ copy editors.